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Wouldn't really call this news...just fluff... 
[25-11-2005] The Camelot Reporter
This week, following the poll about the future of the game we have some information about the first incoming changes- as well as the ones already in testing in the US. You will also learn how to quickly check the under-populated realm bonuses, as well as find a change in the making of the Old Alchemist's barrels, who appeared on our servers two weeks ago. As for the background point we'll talk about an underrated realm ability of Hibernia.
Actual poll
For those amongst you that haven't logged in since the last maintenance, you still have the weekend left to answer the poll we posted on Wednesday. The number of voting players is already very high, much more than for the polls we posted before on the community website. Up until now the majority have voted for 4 of the choices : Trials Of Atlantis, bug fixes, housing zones and crafting. In 2006 you will be able to see your feedback become reality, as the next version after the release of Darkness Rising is already being developed, and it includes many modifications asked for by the community. For the first two priorities, RvR and balancing of character classes, we will see for example realm points gained for repairing keeps, the possibility to suspend the gain of experience points (in particular for those playing in the battlegrounds) and bonuses and new skills for several classes, in particular for heavy tanks.
The changes for Trials of Atlantis are already worked on : you only need the encounter and scrolls to get the activated artifact from the scholar, and this will be retroactive. On top of that, scrolls will be easier to find and lots of encounters (both for artifacts and master levels) will be updated, both to increase the spawn rates and to make them easier to do with small groups.
Of course we will go into more details once Darkness Rising is released on the European servers, but as usual you can already start reading the release notes on the Camelot Herald
Direct X 9.0c update
Reminder of the information posted on Wednesday. Since Wednesday morning's maintenance, any computers that don't have the latest version of DirectX may encounter problems with the game. We thus recommend that you check and update Direct X to version 9.0c if you haven't already.
Display of the under populated realms
Following last Wednesday's maintenance, it is now possible to know which realm is considered under populated directly from the server login window. There are now 3 columns (A, H and M corresponding to each realm) after the status column, the stars indicate if a realm is under populated. It is possible that several realms are considered under populated, or none. This might help newcomers or players creating characters on new servers to help them progress more rapidly. However details about the bonuses given to under populated realms will still only be available on the official website. These bonuses will be updated by the beginning of December.
Modification of the Old Alchemist's recipes
As we told you last week the Old Alchemist's recipes generated a lot of interest, but we are going to make some modification at the end of next week to bottles, and the creation of barrels. The Alchemist will give corked bottles, and they will have to be uncorked by the Glass Blower to be drunk. If the bottles are meant to be used in the creation of a barrel, they won't have to be uncorked.
All bottles actually in game will be considered as uncorked and will not be usable anymore to create barrels. All those that have stocked bottles in order to fill in barrels have to have these barrels created soon by the Alchemist, before the modification is live. It is also not recommended to have bottles created if you do not intend to drink them, as long as the Alchemist will not make corked bottles.
[25-11-2005] The Camelot Reporter
This week, following the poll about the future of the game we have some information about the first incoming changes- as well as the ones already in testing in the US. You will also learn how to quickly check the under-populated realm bonuses, as well as find a change in the making of the Old Alchemist's barrels, who appeared on our servers two weeks ago. As for the background point we'll talk about an underrated realm ability of Hibernia.
Actual poll
For those amongst you that haven't logged in since the last maintenance, you still have the weekend left to answer the poll we posted on Wednesday. The number of voting players is already very high, much more than for the polls we posted before on the community website. Up until now the majority have voted for 4 of the choices : Trials Of Atlantis, bug fixes, housing zones and crafting. In 2006 you will be able to see your feedback become reality, as the next version after the release of Darkness Rising is already being developed, and it includes many modifications asked for by the community. For the first two priorities, RvR and balancing of character classes, we will see for example realm points gained for repairing keeps, the possibility to suspend the gain of experience points (in particular for those playing in the battlegrounds) and bonuses and new skills for several classes, in particular for heavy tanks.
The changes for Trials of Atlantis are already worked on : you only need the encounter and scrolls to get the activated artifact from the scholar, and this will be retroactive. On top of that, scrolls will be easier to find and lots of encounters (both for artifacts and master levels) will be updated, both to increase the spawn rates and to make them easier to do with small groups.
Of course we will go into more details once Darkness Rising is released on the European servers, but as usual you can already start reading the release notes on the Camelot Herald
Direct X 9.0c update
Reminder of the information posted on Wednesday. Since Wednesday morning's maintenance, any computers that don't have the latest version of DirectX may encounter problems with the game. We thus recommend that you check and update Direct X to version 9.0c if you haven't already.
Display of the under populated realms
Following last Wednesday's maintenance, it is now possible to know which realm is considered under populated directly from the server login window. There are now 3 columns (A, H and M corresponding to each realm) after the status column, the stars indicate if a realm is under populated. It is possible that several realms are considered under populated, or none. This might help newcomers or players creating characters on new servers to help them progress more rapidly. However details about the bonuses given to under populated realms will still only be available on the official website. These bonuses will be updated by the beginning of December.
Modification of the Old Alchemist's recipes
As we told you last week the Old Alchemist's recipes generated a lot of interest, but we are going to make some modification at the end of next week to bottles, and the creation of barrels. The Alchemist will give corked bottles, and they will have to be uncorked by the Glass Blower to be drunk. If the bottles are meant to be used in the creation of a barrel, they won't have to be uncorked.
All bottles actually in game will be considered as uncorked and will not be usable anymore to create barrels. All those that have stocked bottles in order to fill in barrels have to have these barrels created soon by the Alchemist, before the modification is live. It is also not recommended to have bottles created if you do not intend to drink them, as long as the Alchemist will not make corked bottles.
